I might write him another letter today. This will be number 4 since the Labor Government was elected. What’s the bet I don’t get a response to this one either?

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444178
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444178Senator Conroy is maintaining that the list isnâ€™t real, but just recently a forum member on an Australian forum just posted instructions on how to hack the ACMA blacklist out of the Australian Governments intergard content filtering software it distributed for free last year to parents, and its very very similar to the leaked list.

â€” Download a copy of the Integard content filter and set it up however you want. (google integardsetup.exe)

â€” Open up integard.exe in a hex editor

â€” In your hex editor, do a search for â€œdatetimepicker.jsâ€ and change it to the not-at-all-ambiguous â€œWebsites_ACMA.txtâ€

]]>By: Itsumishihttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444964
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444964I decided instead of another wasted letter I would make design a stencil. I’ll be putting it on my skateboard.

I haven’t had a chance to 100% finish so there will be some bridges people will have to work out themselves if they want to use it.

]]>By: penjuinhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444198
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444198Spikeles: Look into “bulletproof hosting”. In a sentence, it is basically hosting on servers hidden in Eastern Europe/Russia/China and protected by organised crime. Given the general level of corruption in those areas, shutting down a site would be quite difficult.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-445225
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-445225Internet Blackout day in Australia 19th April 2008
as a nation-wide protest of the governments regressive internet policy,s
]]>By: GuidoDavidhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444254
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444254I think I am going to be a criminal, Australian Style.
Immediate link to all this from my blog.
]]>By: jmtdhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444513
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444513@17: If we take your assertion that no country which legalises child porn as a given (and I’d question that, though, as really the opposite is necessary: things are legal unless criminalised); there’s no international agreement on the definition of “child” OR the definition of “porn”.

There was a recent post by Bruce Schneier highlighting a section of another CP related wikileaks page written by an industry insider. If you have a strong enough stomach that’s worth a read, it covers these kinds of issues.

]]>By: error404http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444275
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444275The Aussie Govt. reaction to the internet is fueled by what is called in Oz “Wowsers”.

The professional Outraged sorts.

Everything is shocking and should be banned according to Wowsers.

BUt when you have a govt who know as little about technology as this lot do, but jump to the tune as played by the equally badly informed wowsers you get this sort of fecking nonsense.

The wowsers eye view of the world is this

“internet has caused child pornography”

when the facts are, that there are just as many kids in danger now as there were in the 50s, only nowadays we are AWARE of the problem and actively investigate the problem.

When child porn was done with black and white film in home darkrooms it was effectively off the map, there was no way short of police going undercover as prisoners in the secure unit of prisons to get an “in” to the world of kiddy porn.

The conviction rates for this crime are through the roof compared to where they were before.

Yet punitive action is still threatened against any Australian who links to this non-list.

Work that out.

]]>By: jimjambandithttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444049
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444049Yep, tis gawn. Conroy’s fingerprints all over this one.
]]>By: Takuanhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444051
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444051hee! this is gonna be fun!
]]>By: Babauhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444056
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444056Big step in the right direction that we now have something concrete to show people how much of a bad idea this is.

The censoring hasn’t started in Australia yet, but I still can’t load wikileaks.org Thing is, I can’t load it from my Dreamhost shell account either. Is the site down?

]]>By: spazzmhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444059
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444059I do realise that Wikileaks has most likely just been slashdotted, but it still gives me a funny feeling.
]]>By: wackyvorlonhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444827
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444827At least one link is dead, to this:

]]>By: His Wholiness the Rev.DrJon BMM, NaRDhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444060
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444060I’m in the middle of a reload, but last I checked, the site had been slashdotted by curious Aussies, not blocked from access:http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/wikileaks.org

If Conroy’s people could block it, they would. But I don’t think they can. Yet.

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444062
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444062Everytime I think we’re backwards in the states, at least I can look abroad and know that it could be worse.
]]>By: Takuanhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444064
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444064it is the duty of free humans everywhere to support free humans in Australia by attacking the Australian government via the web. Do it. One day the free humans of Australia may return the favour. We could start with a game of keep-away of Wikileak worthy files.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444066
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444066Oh crap. 4chan is on there.

Sure, it’s a hive of scum and villiany, but easily one of the most interesting and creative communities on the internet.

This is just…awful.

]]>By: Palilayhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444323
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444323I was most saddened to see that the list included two Adult / Porn sites that I used to subscribe to. I might add, that these are LEGITIMATE sites run by LEGITIMATE businesses that work within the law, which feature ADULTS in sexual activities. Not even a HINT of “Child Porn”, or even “TEEN PORN!” type stuff, just adults engaged in sexual acts in front of a camera.

I will never, EVER vote Labor again.

]]>By: oligorehttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444069
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444069This list is NOT for the firewall. It is for a optional piece of site-blocking software provided to parents by the government …
but shouldn’t the parents have a right to know what’s being blocked?
]]>By: Takuanhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444839
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444839if all the pedophiles occupying political office were removed overnight, there would be by-elections for years afterwards. The same reason that prostitution is never dealt with rationally: too many powerful clients WANT their suppliers underground – and helpless.
]]>By: EeyoreXhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444588
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444588@Penjuin
“Quite difficult” is not at all the same thing as “unachivable” or “unfeasable”. It is exactly for these kinds of situations that our tax money goes to politicians, diplomats, interpol and various black ops units.
If OUR GODDAMN EMPLOYEES put their minds to it, decided to put this on the same level of priority as, say, copyright issues and took the fight to the UN, to EU, to Nato and to the Bindefelt group, they COULD effectivly wipe out Internet kiddy porn. It IS doable.
Firewalling and filtering and taking away innocent peoples Internet is not even really a way to adress the problems, it’s just treating the symptoms.

@JMTD: for those very few ISP providers that would not budge if the international community applied serious legal or economic pressure, there is allways the possibilty for concerned citicens to pass the hat and hire us some Blackwater mercs to help shut those servers down. I’m dead serious here. You could do it on a kconsiderably tighter budget than your average church collects in a couple of months.

Bottom line: to successfully filter a site, you need their adress. If we have their adress, we CAN go get them.
The only reason that there still are paedophiles on the Internet is because someone wants to keep them as scapegoats.

I am speechless after reading it. The writer is sick, obviously, barely mentioning the damage on kids caused by abusers. But, on the other hand, he exposes other interesting arguments and made me think a lot.

I think that everybody here should read it, keeping in mind how perturbed and brilliant the writer is

]]>By: Sparrowhawkhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444084
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444084@12: Were you surprised? Though I’m curious if the string “img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html” only blocks /b/, or if it blocks 4chan.org/*
]]>By: Mr_Staypufthttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444088
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444088I haven’t been this embarrassed to be an Aussie since the “Australian guest star” episode of Baywatch.

With this “net filter” thing from the ALP, and the “no rationalisation of game ratings” (again, ALP)… I will no longer vote ALP.

The Greens will get my vote every time.

“Kev07″? If I had the car sticker, I’d burn it.
Hell hath no fury like an ex-voter scorned.

]]>By: Takuanhttp://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/wikileaks-reveals-se.html#comment-444094
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-444094embarrassed? You should be delighted! Blessed with a truly stupid opponent and granted a cause to fight that is unequivocally Right! We should all be so lucky. No go forth and get two fingers up their nose and stomp those kneecaps across the curb!
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